(THIS PODCAST WAS REPURPOSED FROM AN AUDIO-VISUAL WEBINAR) Two leading continuous integration experts — Jeffrey Fredrick of Agitar and Andrew Glover of Stelligent — provide an introduction to continuous integration and testing — why it works and how you can start taking advantage of it today. Jeffrey Fredrick is lead committer on CruiseControl, the popular open source framework for continuous integration. Andrew Glover is the author of Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison–Wesley, June 2007). Length: one hour

Continuous Integration and Testing (Flash)
This webinar by Jeffrey Fredrick of Agitar Software provides an introduction to continuous integration and testing – what it is, what the benefits are, how to get started, and successful patterns of implementation. The webinar also includes a case study of a successful implementation of continuous integration illustrating how you can save time by catching problems early. Length: one hour

Business Benefits of Unit Testing (Flash)
Most people think of unit testing as a software engineering best practice—but what most people don’t know is that the biggest benefits of unit testing are business benefits.
Carey Schwaber from Forrester Research discusses unit testing and its business benefits. Length: one hour

Alberto Savoia of Agitar Software discusses how Java's unique set of features, combined
with the computing power of modern CPUs, can be used to address some of the thorniest problems associated with developer and unit testing. Length: one hour

Bernard Golden, author of the book Succeeding with Open Source and columnist for CIO magazine, discusses how to assess the maturity and applicability of open source technologies for commercial use. Length: one hour

J. B. Rainsberger, author of JUnit Recipes, shows you architecture and design strategies to make it easier to "test-drive" J2EE components. You'll learn how to build a J2EE application while following the cardinal rule of Test-Driven Development: Never write a line of production code unless somewhere, a test has failed. Length: one hour

This webinar is presented by Jeffrey Fredrick, contributor to the CruiseControl project. In this session, you'll learn how the entire development cycle changes when the integrate-build-test process is done on a continuous basis. Length: one hour

Ted Husted, Senior member of the Struts development team, presents a webinar on his experiences with using Agitar to investigate the Struts code base and automatically create a series of unit tests. Length: one hour

Kent Beck, inventor of eXtreme Programming and co-author of JUnit, discusses why developers might embrace being accountable in software development, how it will make their life better, and how they'll make better contributions to the software projects they work on. Length: one hour

Melissa Webster, IDC Research Director, discusses how Developer Testing can help software development teams boost the overall quality of the software they
deliver, reduce the risk of failure due to defects, and free up
resources that can be more productively applied to new development
that generates new business value. Length: one hour

Jayson Minard, CIO of Abebooks, discusses the implementation of the Abebooks developer testing program, and some surprising improvements in quality and
process which have resulted from this initiative. Length: one hour